d-Matrix

Principal Software Engineer - Kernels

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3 months ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$200k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop, enhance, and maintain software kernels for next-generation AI hardware.
  • Help productize the software stack for the company’s AI compute engine.
  • Map algorithms and computational graphs generated by AI frameworks to underlying hardware architectures.
  • Optimize and make tradeoffs across the hardware-software co-design and full-stack toolchain.
  • Build and scale software deliverables within tight development windows.
  • Collaborate with compiler experts on compiler infrastructure and with machine learning, systems, mixed-signal, DSP, CPU, and hardware teams.

Requirements

  • MS in computer engineering, mathematics, physics, or a related field with 12+ years of industry experience, or a PhD in one of these fields with 7+ years of industry experience.
  • Strong understanding of computer architecture, data structures, system software, and machine learning fundamentals.
  • Proficiency in C/C++ and Python development in Linux environments using standard development tools.
  • Experience implementing algorithms in C/C++ and Python and for specialized hardware such as FPGAs, DSPs, GPUs, and AI accelerators.
  • Experience implementing ML operators including GEMMs, convolutions, BLAS, SIMD operations, softmax, layer normalization, and pooling.
  • Experience developing for embedded SIMD vector processors such as Tensilica.
  • Experience with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch is preferred.
  • Experience with ML compilers and algorithms such as MLIR, LLVM, TVM, or Glow is preferred.
  • Experience with deep learning frameworks and ML models for computer vision, natural language processing, or recommendation is preferred.
  • Startup, small-team, incubation, cloud-provider, or AI-compute/subsystem-company experience is preferred.
  • Strong ownership, leadership, collaboration, and self-motivation.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with 3–5 days per week onsite at the Santa Clara, California headquarters.

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About d-Matrix

201-500 employees

d-Matrix is an AI infrastructure company building the next generation of inference computing for the era of generative and agentic AI. Founded in 2019, d-Matrix is rethinking AI inference from the ground up with a full-stack approach spanning silicon, systems, networking, and software. Its flagship products, including the Corsair™ inference platform and JetStream™ inference fabric, are purpose-built to deliver high-performance, low-latency, and energy-efficient AI inference at datacenter scale. The company has raised nearly $500 million from a global syndicate of leading venture capital firms, sovereign wealth funds, and strategic investors, including Playground Global, Bullhound Capital, M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), SK hynix, Temasek, Qatar Investment Authority, and Singapore’s EDBI. The company’s most recent financing valued d-Matrix at approximately $2 billion. As AI shifts from training to inference, the demands on AI infrastructure are changing. d-Matrix is building the infrastructure required to power the next generation of real-time AI at scale.

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